Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-16 Thread Szii
find uses for it. Peace, love, code. -Szii - Original Message - From: Jason Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 2:44 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose?? amen brother! ""Plutarck"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in

RE: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-15 Thread Sander Pilon
XML, IMHO, can best be regarded as a layer between the real data and the application. We used to make up new formats for allmost every type of data exchange. Every type had its own format, its own parser, and because of that the same mistakes were made over and over again. Some formats weren't

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-15 Thread Manuel Lemos
Hello Chris, On 14-Apr-01 16:07:59, you wrote: Alright I'll start this out by saying I have a subscription to "Visual Basic Programmers Journal". Before I converted and realized that I loved PHP so much I used ASP. Well it seems that in this magazine that XML is a hot topic in the MS world. I

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Chris, @ 12:01:45 AM on 4/14/2001, Chris Anderson wrote: Am I missing something here? This has been discussed many times. There was an extremely long thread last year about XML, but I can't find it in the archives. Here's a good start:

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Chris Anderson
thanks that helped I stll think it sounds like its more geared for the MS crowd - Original Message - From: "Brian Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "PHP is not a drug." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Brian Clark
Hi Chris, @ 1:17:25 PM on 4/14/2001, Chris Anderson wrote: ... I stll think it sounds like its more geared for the MS crowd No way. "XML is a set of rules, guidelines, conventions, whatever you want to call them, for designing text formats for such data, in a way that produces files that are

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Plutarck
message 002001c0c506$c70d7f00$0d1012d1@null">news:002001c0c506$c70d7f00$0d1012d1@null... thanks that helped I stll think it sounds like its more geared for the MS crowd - Original Message - From: "Brian Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "PHP is not a drug." [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread phpman
hold on here, XML and HTML have, as far as I'm concerned, nothing to do with each other. I'm using XML to link databases on the sites I write (with PHP) with disparate databases on other Inernet servers. A good example would be linking up with UPS's online rates application server. I send an XML

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Jason Caldwell
I stll think it sounds like its more geared for the MS crowd - Original Message - From: "Brian Clark" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "PHP is not a drug." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2001 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose?? Hi Chris,

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Kimsal
Plutarck wrote: I use to be really enthusiastically pro-XML just as I was getting into PHP, but now I've basically taken a "XML shmexXML" approach. I get the initial attraction, but I would think the love would fade off a bit. The key that so many people seem to forget is the best way to

Re: [PHP] What's XML's Purpose??

2001-04-14 Thread Plutarck
I agree with most of your points actually. That's why I said I thought the love would "fade off a bit". For some things I agree that XML really is quite excellant. But what I meant about people not being good with "new" on Java and XML, is that when people (including myself) get a new toy they